Re: porn emails

From: Scott M. (s-mar_at_BADSPAMsnet.net)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:28:58 -0500

> I don't think so. The OP was advocating using a false address that, on
> the example given, could equally have been some else's real address. Not
> something they would thank you for.

If someone tries to send me email at Scott@REMOVETHISBEFORESENDINGsnet.net,
then they deserve to get their email lost in the shuffle. If there actually
is someone with that address, then they can easily ignore it and will
probably realize that they should maybe have used a different address to
begin with.

Look at 99% of the email addresses used in these ng posts. This is a normal
convention. It's not bad advice, it's very sound advice.

> My ISP filters using Brightmail and I get about 2 or 3 spam emails a
> week, so hardly a problem.
> I don't think that adding BADSPAM to a domain name is a particularly
> foolproof method of fooling spammers as I'm sure they read munging
> recommendations like any one else and automatically removing
> combinations of BAD, SPAM, NO etc. from trawled addresses isn't a
> difficult task. Also, an ISP may well have an AUP that prohibits use of
> invalid domain names and the news server I use (nothing to do with my
> ISP) blocks subscriber posts that don't come from a valid domain. In
> any event, if that's the way one wishes to go then simply adding
> .invalid to a domain name creates an "officially valid" false domain.

You are speaking in generalities. We all don't use your email software and
we all don't use your ISP. I feel comfortable that BADSPAM is sufficient to
prevent spambots from picking up my real address. If someone doesn't feel
that this is sufficient, they can certainly get more creative.

> I wouldn't want an anti-spam method that required my correspondents to
> jump through hoops to reply to my real address so I would use an
> appropriate invalid address in the From field and new real address in
> the Reply-To Field.

Ok, that's you. I thiink if you look at the vast majority of posts here,
you'll see that this is not a common concern. It's really not jumping
though a hoop to highlight and hit delete.

> I never use OE.

And this means than no one does? The instructions were for OE, but the
principal works in virtually any newsreader.

It just sounds like you want to be argumentative and are not really offering
any useful advice to the OP.

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